Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv prt] [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And you come over this hill and suddenly there 's nothing on the other side except a huge hole in the ground , and the road goes along almost a cliff edge the side of this erm hole which is this worked out iron ore quarry . |
| 2 | Four plus three , as the number you add on goes down so the answer goes down . |
| 3 | Yet this still represents over double the figure of 80,000 which was the divorce rate in 1971 . |
| 4 | At the same time a check should be made to ensure that the private sector passes on only the handling charge to its patients . |
| 5 | A short illness occurs in about a quarter of the people infected by HIV around the time that antibodies begin to be made . |
| 6 | And he shoots down dead the arithmetic-bird , |
| 7 | The company participates in nearly a score of such ventures , some of them dating back to the 1930s . |
| 8 | The more , the more , the more you put in the formula , that more memory it takes , but even a very simple formula , uses up quite a lot of memory . |
| 9 | It uses up quite an area does n't it for er mm |
| 10 | It fully bears out both the disquiet expressed in the working party 's Report , and quoted above ; and the CDA 's dissociation of its policies from those in pursuit of which the three cases in question were projected into disaster . |
| 11 | He trips up quite a bit anyway when he 's walking along . |
| 12 | To many hundreds of birdwatchers the name conjures up either the anticipation or satisfaction of excellent birding , or memories of the abject miseries of seasickness on the three-hour crossing . |
| 13 | Several others , on the other hand , were ‘ on the best of terms ’ with their children , including two in shared households and another couple who said ‘ their children are very good to them ; one daughter does their washing for them and their daughter-in-law goes up nearly every day to do their shopping for them ’ . |
| 14 | I sweep the rod back as much as I can in the confined space and , although the fish is rather small at about 1¼lb , it kicks up quite a fuss and there is nothing I can do to stop it splashing . |
| 15 | It is clear , therefore , that ns.21A tightens up considerably the law in this area . |
| 16 | ‘ Fund raising fatigue ’ soon builds up so the target is best seen in maximum returns for minimum expenditure of energy . |
| 17 | A crucial first step in our account takes up again a theme , introduced in the previous chapter , about the continuity between the normal and the psychotic . |
| 18 | The pressed steel system unit case is bulky by today 's standards and takes up quite a lot of desk space . |
| 19 | It takes up quite a lot of our time . |
| 20 | Otherwise , he goes out quite a lot and he occasionally , according to Gooseneck , entertains ladies in his bedroom . ’ |
| 21 | She lives with her mam and dad , a cleaner and welder respectively , and does a bit of housework , though her mam still does the cooking , and she goes out once a week . |
| 22 | This reminder appears on almost every page of the Delta Air Lines Stewardess Training Manual . |
| 23 | Once it 's in the blood , alcohol is quickly distributed throughout all the water in the body so it appears in almost every organ and tissue , including blood . |
| 24 | Surprisingly , Sir Alec has only five words of dialogue in the entire 90-minute film , though he appears in almost every scene . |
| 25 | He says that when a jet of ‘ inflammable air ’ [ hydrogen ] was burned in a receiver filled with ‘ common air ’ … ‘ the common air is contracted a full fifth of its original dimensions ; immediately after the flame is extinguished , there appears through almost the whole of the receiver , a fine powdery substance like a whitish cloud ’ . |
| 26 | If we take from ( 1 ) the phrase distant cousin , we can remark that it is closely analogous to another phrase — near relative — in which it is quite plain that the adjective is not assigned to the referential locus of the following word , but qualifies the property which it expresses in just the way that the same word does in : ( 5 ) a near impossible task The facts of intensional qualification are not in the least altered because traditional grammar has customarily described near as an adverb in phrases like ( 5 ) , but as an adjective in near relative . |
| 27 | And that could be just the tip of the iceberg as official monitoring picks up only a fraction of illegal pollution . |
| 28 | Erm it rabbits on quite a lot up to now . |
| 29 | Gives off quite a lot of heat . |
| 30 | I am sure that she follows up precisely the kind of matter to which my hon. and loyal Friend has referred , but I shall make certain that that is so , and write to my hon. Friend . |